The Gupta Empire

The Gupta's were the leading contributers in mathematics.

The Gupta Empire is often known as the Golden Age of the Indian Culture

The Gupta Empire existed from
around the time 330 AD to around 550 AD. This time period was referred to the “Golden Age” for the Gupta’s. The Gupta
Empire collapsed in 550 AD due to the Central Asian Nomads called the White
Huns invading India. The Gupta Military tried to defend the empire but instead
they drained all of their money. After the defeat India divided back into a
number of small regional kingdoms. The Gupta Empire was located in north
western India.

The Gupta’s had many contributions to today’s
society. One major thing that they contributed to our society is mathematics.
First they created Arabic numbers, and then they realized that they must have
something to start at. They then created the concept of zero. Once they had
these two great ideas together the people of the empire but them together to
make the decimal system. The most significant achievements of this period were
in religion, education, mathematics, art and Sanskrit Literature. In religion they
practiced the religion of Hinduism. Education included grammar, composition,
logics and mathematics.

The Gupta Empire is a very interesting place.
A few interesting facts from the Gupta Empire are in the caves of Ajanta,
India, one can see the many cave paintings that were left on the walls of cave temples.
The Buddhists who had their temples drew many magical paintings of Buddhism
stories and legends and also scenes of the Gupta Empire. In the year 310 A.D, a new leader emerged who
would be begin to unify India. Many believe that this is why during this time
India was believed to be in its “Golden
Ages”. This leaders name was Chandragupta. Chandragupta set up his capital
in the old kingdom of Magadha. As stated before The Gupta Empire was very
interesting. Villages were protected from bandits and raids with local military
squads. Each squad was made up of one elephant, one chariot, three armored cavalrymen
and five foot soldiers. In times of war, all the squads were brought together
to from the royal army.